From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 24 9:39: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F2715919 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:38:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id JAA08399; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:38:44 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA06539; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:38:44 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.236]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id JAA18952; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:37:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <388C8F3B.48E0D174@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:43:23 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mahmoud Chilali Cc: Joss Roots , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it posssible for someone to FREEZE FreeBSD over TCP-IP Network ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mahmoud Chilali wrote: > > This is most probably a hang of the X server. I experienced this many times > (and not only with FreeBSD). TMost of the tim, even the CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't > work and the only > thing to do is the OFF button. sometimes however (but this is a > hardware/BIOS thing), even this doesn't > work and the only way is to "deinvent" electricity by unplugging the PC... C-A-DEL doesn't work when the Xserver controls the screen. Did you try C-A-Backspace to kill the Xserver? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message